isembedded Public experiments in economic geography
Patrick Adler · University of Hong Kong

Public experiments in economic geography.

Economic geography has long been fascinated by whether technology changes the demand for proximity. Disembedded is a series of projects that try to do the work of economic geography remotely, with minimal local interaction. How much should we revise, if at all, our assumptions about the necessity of face-to-face interaction?

The current focus is on what the discipline might absorb from the creator economy — its tools, and its habit of showing the work rather than only the result. Read more →